Third-grade reading scores drop across Ohio

Struggling readers could be held back next year

2:48 AM,
Dec. 14, 2013

Written by

Jessica Brown
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Third-graders across Ohio scored much lower on this year's fall reading tests than their counterparts last fall.

Only 56.9 percent of third-grade students passed - testing proficient or above - on state tests, which were administered in October at traditional public schools and charter schools throughout the state.